Re: Giving developers clue how many testers verified certain kernel version

Alejandro Bonilla
2005-07-23T03:41:21Z

Linus Torvalds wrote:

>On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Lee Revell wrote:
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>>Con's interactivity benchmark looks quite promising for finding
>>scheduler related interactivity regressions.
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>I doubt that _any_ of the regressions that are user-visible are
>scheduler-related. They all tend to be disk IO issues (bad scheduling or
>just plain bad drivers), and then sometimes just VM misbehaviour.
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>People are looking at all these RT patches, when the thing is that most
>nobody will ever be able to tell the difference between 10us and 1ms
>latencies unless it causes a skip in audio.
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True, and I just couldn't agree more with Lee that lots of the delays
that one looks at is because of user space. Still, I have some doubt on
how faster 2.6 is sometimes, where 2.4 is faster in other things.

i.e. As my newbie view, I can see 2.6 running faster in X, Compiling and
stuff, but I see 2.4 working much faster when running commands, response
and interaction in the console. But then again, this could be only me...

> Linus
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.Alejandro